Jon Katz said: "It's tough to imagine a more urgent moral issue than the fate of children without access to computers or the Net."
Really? What about our society's loss of a third of its children to abortion?
Or the fact that in the Netherlands more than half the "assisted suicides" take place without the consent of the "patient"? And that the practice is coming to America?
Or the flood of pornography with the concomitant decrease in respect for women?
Or the apparent inability of people in America to keep promises?
I think we have a lot more important things to worry about than equal access to the latest high-tech gadgetry whose value in education is questionable.
Can you imagine how those genetically-engineered children will feel? "Mom and dad love me for my genes, not for myself." "If I hadn't been what they wanted genetically, they wouldn't have had me--or would have aborted me." I can see a lot of kids hating their parents over this.
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Really? What about our society's loss of a third of its children to abortion?
Or the fact that in the Netherlands more than half the "assisted suicides" take place without the consent of the "patient"? And that the practice is coming to America?
Or the flood of pornography with the concomitant decrease in respect for women?
Or the apparent inability of people in America to keep promises?
I think we have a lot more important things to worry about than equal access to the latest high-tech gadgetry whose value in education is questionable.
Can you imagine how those genetically-engineered children will feel? "Mom and dad love me for my genes, not for myself." "If I hadn't been what they wanted genetically, they wouldn't have had me--or would have aborted me." I can see a lot of kids hating their parents over this.